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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting HELP with AWK or SED. Need to replace the commas between double quotes in CSV file Post 302670377 by shell_boy23 on Thursday 12th of July 2012 04:50:04 AM
Old 07-12-2012
Thanks, Scrutinizer. This works perfectly fine.

---------- Post updated at 03:40 AM ---------- Previous update was at 03:09 AM ----------

Hi Scrutinizer,

I'm going with the below logic you suggested:
Code:
awk 'NR%2-1{gsub(/,/,"|")}1' RS=\" ORS=\" infile

I will need to revert this file to the original format after validation.
how can we do that with a similar awk command?

---------- Post updated at 03:50 AM ---------- Previous update was at 03:40 AM ----------

Got it! Don't bother answering.
I'll use a simple sed substitution to revert the file to original format.
Thanks guys!
 

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